On Earth as it is in Heaven

no more christians

While I would like to write something deep and profound about Good Friday, I have nothing at present. I still find myself thinking about Christ’s death, and reading the Gospels as I think about it.

But in the meantime, I would like to promote a new teaching series at my home church, Mosaic. The series entitled “No More Christians” will begin on Easter Sunday and promises to be a worthwhile experience. For more information, please check out nomorechristians.com. Mosaic’s heart is really in the right place, despite the appearances of aggressive marketing. Check out the website, and feel free to ask questions.

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…at the University of West Florida. I’ve been meaning to post this image for a while. I took this picture back at UWF’s Pensacola campus a month or two ago. This is how we communicate the love of God to people? Really?

Things like this just bewilder me.

I met a an Agnostic woman there who was crying from the disgust she felt at the display this group put on. All I could do was apologize to her. And that didn’t really feel like it was enough.

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C.S. Lewis described Christianity like a house. He wrote that this House had a long hallway with a variety of doors leading off to different sides. Thinking like this, all Christians at some point stand in the hallway, and some stay there longer than others. But for most, there comes a point where we walk through doors labeled "Catholic" or "Baptist" or the ever popular "Nondenominational." Whether we care to admit it or not, everyone chooses a door. Because "it is in the rooms, not in the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals." Worship and fellowship happens in the rooms. Study. Rest. Life goes on in those rooms. In the hallway, we’re usually just passing each other by. This isn’t to say there isn’t merit in the hallway though.

…of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

Because we do share one common house. Not that there aren’t things upon which we differ, or issues which we take with certain styles, but none of that matters provided we are all living in the same house, built on The Foundation, that true and proper Cornerstone. We build our notions of church up on things we prefer rather than Truth.

And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?’

The first experience with Christ in this world was worship, and those who came to see God Incarnate did not care about the style or location. Worshiping the Christ overshadowed all of their personal preferences. And we forget that.

Crucial to living in the same house together is respect. Respect for those who have chosen rooms different from our own, and respect for those who are still standing in the hallway or just coming in the door.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

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The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem. - G.K. Chesterton